Needle-cabinet for talking-machines.



L. W. FIGKETT.

NEEDLE CABINET FOR TALKING MACHINES.

Arrmoulon FILED JULYZO, 1906.

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\ LOUIS W. FIGKETT, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

NEEDLE-CABINET FOR TALKING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1907.

Application filed July 20,1906. Serial No. 327,088.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS W. Froxn'rr, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica and a resident of Portland Maine, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Needle-Cabinets for Talking-Machines, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a cabinet for the used andunused needles employed in certain kinds of talking machines. In suchmachines the needle or stylus which is a short steel shaft pointed atone end, runs in the grooves of the record and after being used once itis thrown away. It is important that these needles after they are usedonce should not again be used in the machine because their use has aninjurious effect on the record. Thus it becomes important. to keep thediscarded needles where they will not be liable to be picked up bymistake and used over again and especially so since it is impossible todistinguish by the naked eye a used from an unused needle. It oftenhappens that when the used needles are cast aside they become mixed upmore or less with the new needles and are accidentally used again.

The purpose of my invention is to provide a cabinet which will containopen topped receptacles from which the various grades of needlesemployed may be readily picked out and which shall also provide astorage box or reservoir into which the used needles may be thrown andwhere they will not be in danger of being again picked up and used.

With this end in view my invention consists generally of a box orreservoir for the unused needles with a hopper shaped or other openingadapted to receive the old needles and having secured thereto preferablyat the top, a series of open topped receptacles from which the newneedles may be readily picked when wanted. Such a cabinet enables theuser of the machine to have his supply of needles always at hand and aconvenient receptacle always ready to receive the used needles.

I illustrate my invention by means of the accompany ing drawing inwhich'.

Figure 1 is a central vertical section through my cabinet and Fi 2 is aplan or top view of the same.

The cabinet is made up of storage box or reservoir of any suitable shapeas A, with a top B and a bottom a. As here shown, I provide short legsor rests a and in the bottom is a discharge opening a with a swinging orpivoted plate or closure a closing said opening. The opening a is at thebottom of a hopper shaped recess formed in the bottom of the box tofacilitate the removal of the needles when the same are to bedischarged. The used needles are introduced into the box through asuitable opening here shown as a hopper D on the upper end of a tube Ewhich extends vertically through the top of the box and has on the lowerend thereof a nut e impinging on the underside of the box cover. The nute holds the hopper and enables the latter to be used as a handle forlifting the cabinet.

Open topped receptacles are attached to the box for containing theunused needles. As here shown, I secure to the top of the box,preferably grouped around the hopper tube E in the form of a circle, aplurality of cup-shaped receptacles O secured to the top of the box byscrews passing through them into the box. The hopper rests on the inneredges of the receptacles O and is forced downward against these edges bythe nut e. In these are deposited the new needles according to theirsize and from them they may be readily picked out. Having been used, theneedles are thrown into the hopper E and pass thence down into the boxwhere they are allowed to accumulate until the box is full when they maybe dumped out through the discharge opening a Such a cabinet isconvenient to use and keeps the new needles where they can be readilypicked up and disposes of the old needles so that there is no danger ofpicking them up by mistake.

It will be seen that in the form of the cabinet here shown the hopperfor receiving the used needles is above the other receptacles and issomewhat larger in size and it also partially covers them so that thereis no liability of putting the unused needles in the wrong place.

For the ordinary user I would provide but two receptacles for the newneedles and I would form the box oblong instead of round and the cabinetas here shown with four receptacles is adapted for demonstrationpurposes where all varieties of records are shown.

I claim:

1. The herein described needle cabinet for talking machines consistingof a storage box for used needles, a plu rality of open toppedreceptacles for unused needles secured to the top of said box, adelivery tube extending vertically through the top of said box having anut on its lower end and a hopper on the upper end of said tube abovethe level of the otherreceptacle.

2. The herein described needle cabinet for talking machines consistingof a storage box for used needles, :1 plurality of open toppedreceptacles for unused needles secured in a circle on the top of saidbox, a tube extending vertically through to the top of said box in thecenter of said circle and having a nut on its lower end and a hopper onthe upper end of said tube resting on the edges of said receptacles.

3. The herein described needle cabinet for talking ma chines consistingof a storage box for unused needles having a hopper shaped bottom, adischarge opening in said bottom, a closure for said opening, a hopperon the top of said box for receiving said needles and one or more opentopped receptacles for the unused needles.

4. The herein described needle cabinet for talking machines consistingof a storage box for used needles, a plurality of open toppedreceptacles for unused needles secured to the top of said box, a hopperfor receiving the used needles located above the level or saidreceptacles and a tube connecting said hopper with said storage box.

LOUIS IV. FICKETT.

Witnesses S. W. Barns, Many A. DONALDSON.

